First round leaders usually have a big advantage in 36-hole weekend tournaments in the Upstate. One or two golfers post low first rounds and then make the rest of the field chase them down. At the 7th annual Upper State Amateur the first round leaders didn’t have much […]
Four players are tied for the lead and 33 golfers shot par or better in the first round of the Upstate Amateur Championship. Robbie Biershenk from Boiling Springs and Levi Joiner from Prosperity are joined by two college golfers on top after the first round of the […]
It was a cloudy day for the final round of the Sixth Upstate Amateur championship, but Sun shined anyway. USC Upstate senior golfer Sun Paripunna shot a 6-under par 66 to claim the championship at Green Valley Country Club. He managed to post a two day total of […]
Lincoln Memorial ran away from the field with a sensational second round and went on to win the Southern Tides Classic at Green Valley Country Club. The tournament hosted by Limestone and Coker College played 36 holes on Monday and finished up with 18 holes on Tuesday. The […]
USC Upstate golfer Reid Bedell shot a final round 6-under par 66 to win the Upstate Amateur at Green Valley Country Club. The Spartan’s junior topped what may have been the best field ever in the five year history of the tournament. Forty-five college golfers from the area […]
Anna Redding from Concord, NC seemed to have more trouble holding the CGA Women’s championship trophy than she did playing and winning the tournament at Green Valley. “It is heavy,” she joked as she wrestled to get a grip on the trophy. “But I’m strong enough to hold […]
Anna Morgan was the only golfer to shoot under par in the first round. The Spartanburg junior held a four-shot lead over four golfers. The WSCGA sponsored tournament was scheduled for 36 holes, but tournament administrators decided the weather conditions would not allow a full second round to […]
The Greenville team had a score to settle with thier neighbors from Spartanburg at the annual Cyder Cup matches played at Green Valley. Spartanburg won last year’s Ryder Cup style tournament by a convincing eight point margin. Spartanburg’s eight point margin of victory last year was the […]
Dawn Woodard wasn’t taking an eight shot lead for granted as she entered the final round of the Women’s South Carolina Golf Association’s amateur championship at Green Valley Country Club. The Thornblade Club golfer had plenty of motivation in the championship. She was trying to tie legendary golfer […]
There were no signs of rust on Carly Burkhardt’s golf game. The future Furman golfer who had not played in a tournament for 15 months took the title at the first Green Valley Girls Classic. Burkhardt missed 15 months of golf while recovering from a wrist injury. The injury […]
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